The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board
Paper No. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YOSHIHIRO MIYAZAWA
and SHUZO SATO
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Appeal No. 2000-1713
Application No. 09/025,551
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HEARD: March 19, 2002
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Before PAK, LIEBERMAN and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.
PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s
refusal to allow claims 1-8, which are the claims pending in
this application.
Claims 1, 7 and 8 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and are set forth below:
1. A surface processing method for a workpiece,
comprising the steps of:
setting a reference plane in the workpiece;
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